Untitled Broken Dreams

For everyone who brought a talent to Los Angeles and handed it to a system that was never going to catch them.

MediumAcrylic, Marker

MaterialConcrete, Epoxy

Dimensions13 × 8 × 1 in33 × 20 cm

SeriesStreet Spirits

EditionUnique, 1 of 1

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The work

An object built for arrival and kept after the fact. It stands for the volume of people who bring a talent to Los Angeles and hand it to a system that was never going to catch them.

Concrete and epoxy hold the fracture in place, not as damage but as record, the way a city keeps the shape of everyone it used up.

Acrylic and marker on concrete and epoxy.

The series, Street Spirits

Street Spirits is a series of small urban relics, hand-cast in concrete with sculpted epoxy detail and sealed under UV-protective clear coats, each set on a handcrafted base of solid maple or concrete. The series reads Los Angeles as material: construction surfaces, street markings, film-industry residue, the layered noise of a city that keeps overwriting itself. Industrial weight against the warmth of wood. Signals, warnings, distortion, survival, held still long enough to be kept.

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